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The guest mentioned this book where the main character realizes late in life that he wasted his life by trying to be normal, and salvation began when he accepted this truth, allowing his suffering to lessen.
One of the books I had in mind while I was writing this was Death of Ivan Illich by Tolstoy. And in that book, it's a much more modest sinner. And his sin is just that he lived his life by the credo t...
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Episode: George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin
The guest mentioned this book where the main character realizes late in life that he wasted his life by trying to be normal, and salvation began when he accepted this truth, allowing his suffering to lessen.
One of the books I had in mind while I was writing this was Death of Ivan Illich by Tolstoy. And in that book, it's a much more modest sinner. And his sin is just that he lived his life by the credo that, I just want to do what everybody else is doing.
Salvation in that moment is aligning yourself with what is actually true. The truth is you lived your life in the wrong way.